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Seattle Symphony 2020 season opening night screening at Marymoor Park tzr. (Brandon Patoc)
Classical Music

What it’s like watching a Seattle Symphony season opener at a drive-in

On Saturday night, Seattle Symphony held a drive-in screening at Marymoor Park of its opening night concert recorded earlier in the week. Can a drive-in screening generate the electricity of a traditional Benaroya Hall season opener?

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Fall Arts Guide 2020

From new TV shows to great books and songs of our time, here’s what to watch, read and listen to this fall

One of Seattle’s classic music venues since the 1990s, the Crocodile, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Seattle. 203363
Fall Arts Guide 2020

6 months after COVID restrictions began, how are music venues, arts groups and musicians doing?

Museum visitors check out Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s artwork, Carpe Fin, on display at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Friday, September 11, 2020. SAM, located in downtown Seattle, reopens to the public Friday, September 11, 2020. The museum was opened to members form September 4 – 7 and now will be open to the public from Friday – Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Museum goers can make reservations for timed ticketing online at visitsam.org. 75 people are allowed to go into the museum every hour in 30 minute increments. 215035
Visual Arts

Seattle Art Museum is open again. Here’s how the first day went

Kirsten Smith is the screenwriter of fan favorite movies such as “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Legally Blonde.”
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‘Legally Blonde’ screenwriter Kirsten Smith, nostalgic for the Northwest, sets new movie in Seattle

Books

“This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger

Here’s the New York Times bestseller Moira’s Book Club will read next

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Emmy winners highlight push for social justice

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Regina King and Uzo Aduba used the come-as-you-are fashion edict for Sunday's virtual Emmy Awards to highlight the national struggle for social justice. Both Black actresses wore T-shirts featuring Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old EMT from Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot and killed by police in March. King’s T-shirt featured Taylor’s face....

Music & Nightlife

The Seattle skyline is barely visible from theDr Jose P Rizal bridge, Friday afternoon September 11, 2019. LO LO LO 215053

What to do if you’re staying inside hiding from smoke or rain this weekend

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To be included in the Nightlife and Future File listings, send information to nightlife@seattletimes.com. For Datebook listings, send information to weekend@seattletimes.com.

Television

FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2014, file photo, director Lynn Shelton poses at the premiere of the film “Laggies” during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. Shelton, an independent filmmaker who directed “Humpday” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” has died at age 54. Shelton’s publicist, Adam Kersh, said in a statement Saturday, May 16, 2020, that she died Friday in Los Angeles from an unidentified blood disorder. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton did not win an Emmy Award, but her parents say she would have been ‘honored to have been there’

Theater

The Meany Center for the Performing Arts will stream an excerpt from “S,” a performance from the Brisbane-based company Circa, on its digital stage, Meany On Screen from Oct. 16 to Oct. 23.

UPDATING: Fall 2020 arts events in the Seattle area

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Seattle Symphony 2020 season opening night screening at Marymoor Park tzr. (Brandon Patoc)

What it’s like watching a Seattle Symphony season opener at a drive-in

Visual Arts

The Meany Center for the Performing Arts will stream an excerpt from “S,” a performance from the Brisbane-based company Circa, on its digital stage, Meany On Screen from Oct. 16 to Oct. 23.

UPDATING: Fall 2020 arts events in the Seattle area

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Bill Schilling, right, returns the pickleball during a recent game with doubles partner George Gallant at Battle Point Park on Bainbridge Island. Pickleball is a racquet sport played on a court and created on Bainbridge Island during the mid-1960s. Pickleball is one of America’s fastest growing sports. Photographed on August 13, 2020. 214706

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The Meany Center for the Performing Arts will stream an excerpt from “S,” a performance from the Brisbane-based company Circa, on its digital stage, Meany On Screen from Oct. 16 to Oct. 23.

UPDATING: Fall 2020 arts events in the Seattle area